Verb (used without object) : Interest in the project has crested. From Dictionary.com.
"All furless, crestless faces look the same," said Varian with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle Town] Reference
"All furless, crestless faces look the same, " said Varian with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
He pulled off his tight-fitting, crestless helm, wiped his arm across his sweating face. From Wordnik.com. [Web Of The Witch World]
Like the Colosseum, it is the crestless trunk of its former self. From Wordnik.com. [Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome] Reference
It is crestless; the spot where the crest ought to be is chestnut red. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
Falconicide is popularly attributed, not only to the vulture, but also to the crestless hawk-eagle (Nisætus Bonelli) which the Hindus call Morángá = peacock slayer. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The water seemed as if oil, sweeping in long, crestless, gently undulating waves, while every colour in the brilliant sunset sky was reflected with kaleidoscopic intermingling in the gliding mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
Beneath, the clear green sea rolled in crestless waves towards the shore -- they were moving "without the animation of the wind," which had deserted them two days ago, and a hundred miles out at sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Open Air] Reference
All day long brilliant butterflies hover on great curved wings over the jungle edge; all day long the cock-quail whistles from wall and hedge, and the crestless jays, sapphire winged, flit across the dunes. From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Instead, its surface is varied with undulations; not abrupt as the ordinary hill and dale scenery, but gently swelling like the ocean's waves when these have become crestless after the subsidence of a storm. From Wordnik.com. [Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco] Reference
This is a smaller bird than either of the preceding; it is also of white plumage, with a light red down under the feathers; and, although it has the power of erecting the feathers on its head, it may be said to be crestless. From Wordnik.com. [Expedition into Central Australia] Reference
These include several pheasants: the crestless fireback pheasant (Lophura erythrophthalma), crested fireback (Lophura ignita), Malay peacock pheasant (Polyplectron malacense), great argus pheasant (Argusianus argus), and crested argus pheasant (Rheinardia ocellata). From Wordnik.com. [Peninsular Malaysian rain forests] Reference
Birds with a restricted distribution found here include russet-backed oropendolas (Psarocolius angustifrons), white-bellied dacnis (Dacnis albiventris), dotted tanagers (Tangara varia), Serra do Mar tyrant-manakins (Neopelma chrysolophum), yellow-crested manakins (Heterocercus flavivertex), and crestless curassows (Mitu tomentosa). From Wordnik.com. [Rio Negro campinarana] Reference
Great shiny blue, crestless jays flitted over the scrub; shy black and white and chestnut chewinks flirted into sight and out again among the heaps of dead brush; red-bellied woodpeckers, sticking to the tree trunks, turned their heads calmly; gray lizards, big, ugly red-headed lizards, swift slender lizards with blue tails raced across the dry leaves or up tree trunks, making even more fuss and clatter than the noisy cinnamon-tinted thrashers in the underbrush. From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
Bring with you an iron pick, a crestless helmet, and leathern sandals.”. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Aswatthaman), elephants fell down on elephants on the earth like crestless mountains. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Falconicide is popularly attributed, not only to the vulture, but also to the crestless hawk-eagle (Nisætus. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
A big crestless wave of concrete. From Wordnik.com. [Twisting Asphalt - A SoCal Sportbike Blog] Reference
Of the crestless long wave rolled. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Iberia! oft thy crestless peasantry. From Wordnik.com. [Some Poems] Reference
Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root?. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of King Henry VI] Reference
Placed, crestless, unadorn'd, his bull-skin casque. From Wordnik.com. [The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper] Reference
These include the endemic grey-legged tinamous (Crypturellus duidae), crestless curassows (Mitu tomentosa), double-striped thick-knees (Burhinus bistriatus), oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis), tawny-tufted toucanets (Selenidera nattereri), endemic orinoco piculets (Picumnus pumilus), two endemic antbirds (yapacana, Myrmeciza disjuncta, and grey-bellied, Myrmeciza pelzelni), spot-tailed nightjars (Caprimulgus maculicaudus), azure-naped jays (Cyanocorax heilprini), and white-naped seedeaters (Dolospingus fringilloides). From Wordnik.com. [Negro-Branco moist forests] Reference
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